Source: Compiled
from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government
agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources,
interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998.

Other Personnel In
Incident:
William A. Kimsey
(missing)
No longer missing, William (Butch) Arthur Kimsey has also been returned
and identified. These findings were accepted by his family - he is now
home.

Welcome Home
Butch

REMARKS: RADIO
CONTACT LOST

SYNOPSIS: On
January 21, 1968, an 01D aircraft (tail #57-2930) from
"Catkillers" (220th Recon Aviation Company) departed the
Hue/Phu Bai airfield on a combat support mission (the Marines describe
the mission as an "NGF mission over North Vietnam") over the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The crew of the aircraft consisted of
U.S. Army WO1 William A. Kimsey, Jr., pilot; and U.S. Marine Capt.
Charles J. Ramsay, aerial observer.

01D - Bird Dog

The aircraft was
directing Naval gunfire on an active anti-aircraft site when radio
contact was lost. Just prior to radio failure, WO Kimsey reported
that their aircraft had been hit. A Forward Air Controller (FAC)
on station conducted a search for several hours without locating the
crash site or making contact with the crew.

Defense Department
records list a slight variance in latitude and longitude location of
loss for Kimsey and Ramsay, but the U.S. Army confirms that both men
were last known to be at grid coordinates YD230810, and that there is no
reason to suspect either of the crew bailed out.

Bill Kimsey had been
21 for two weeks when his 01D aircraft was shot down just into North
Vietnam near the DMZ. Ramsay was an "old man" of
35. There has been no further word of him or of Charles Ramsay.

Although there is no
substantive information on the crew of the 01D, evidence continues to
mount that some Americans are still held prisoner of war. There
are nearly 2500 Americans who did not return from Southeast Asia at the
end of the war. Some were known to have been taken prisoner.
Most can be accounted for by the communist governments of the
region.

The Vietnamese have
continually raised the issue of accountability in the context of aid
and/or diplomatic and trade relations, but the U.S. Government has been
reluctant to negotiate on this basis, preferring instead to maintain a
strict "humanitarian" level of discussion, which has resulted
in the return of few remains, but no American prisoners of war.

Our American soldiers
go to war prepared to be wounded, taken prisoner, even prepared to
die. They do not go prepared to be abandoned. If there is
even ONE American alive, we must do everything possible to bring him
home.

Ltc - 05 - Marine Corps -
Regular
46 year old Married, Caucasian, Male
Born on 08 Jun 08, 1932
From NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
His tour of duty began on Jan 21, 1968
Casualty was on Jun 20, 1978
NORTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died while missing
FIXED-WING - NONCREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH ON LAND
Body was not recovered
Religion
ROMAN CATHOLIC
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